Historical evaluation of Xu Fudong crossing the river

Xu Fudong's crossing to Japan was originally proposed by the late Zhou Dynasty and the early Shang Yi in the Five Dynasties. Said: "Japan, also known as Japan, is in the East China Sea. In the Qin Dynasty, Chui Fu stopped at the country with 500 men and 500 women, and today's figures are only Chang 'an. ..... There is also a mountain called Mount Fuji or Penglai in Ganying in the northeast ... Fulai Xu is called Penglai, and all descendants are called Qin. "

Yi Chu said that this statement comes from Japanese monk Hiroshi. Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian in the Song Dynasty, also thought that Xu Fudong had spent the day in Japan. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a Japanese monk went to Nanjing and presented Ming Taizu with a poem entitled "Xufu Temple in front of a wild bear". Li Shuchang and Huang Qixian, diplomatic envoys to Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, paid a visit to Xu Fu's tomb and wrote poems and inscriptions. Xu said in The Origin of the Japanese Nation that during the Warring States Period and the Pre-Qin Period, a large number of people immigrated to Japan along the southeast coast of China, and the boys and girls led by Xu Fu were one of them. "It must be true that Xu Fudong crossed the sea." Hong Kong Wei Ting wrote "Xu Fu's Entry into the Founding of Japan", arguing that Xu Fu was Xuan Di, the founding emperor of Japan, and the 29th grandson after Zhuan Xu. Taiwan Province scholar Peng's book Xu Fu is Emperor Jimmu further enriches Wei Tingsheng's viewpoint.

Up to now, there are many remains of Cui Fu activities in Japan, such as the tomb of Cui Fu and his emissaries in Wakayama Prefecture, Cui Fu Palace, the "Land Cui Fu" monument in Saga Prefecture of Jiuzhou Island, the Cui Fushi House, the Cui Fu Shrine, and the Gionee Shrine dedicated to Cui Fu. Some scholars believe that Xu Fudong's crossing the sea in Japan is only a legend, and there is no reliable historical document to prove it. Some people even think that the legend of Xu Fudong crossing the sea in Japan is the product of Japan around the 10 century, and it was not first put forward by China people. At that time, Xu Fu only went to the islands of Bohai Bay, and his deeds, relics and cemeteries in Japan all existed in name only. In addition, some scholars believe that it is a historical fact that Xu Fudong crossed the sea, but he did not go to Japan, but went to the United States. Xu Fudong's crossing time coincides with the rise of Mayan civilization in America, and Japan and Chinese mainland are very close, so they don't need to spend huge sums of money at all, and they can arrive in a few years. There is no convincing answer to where Xu Fudong went in the vast sea of people.